William Allmond Codrington Goode

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Sir William Allmond Codrington Goode GCMG (born June 8, 1907 in London , † September 15, 1986 ) was a British colonial official, barrister and last colonial governor of Singapore and North Borneo .

Life

Goode was born in the Twickenham neighborhood of London and attended Oakham School in Oakham and Worcester College in Oxford . He was a barrister for the Gray's Inn Bar Association . In 1931 he went to the Federated Malay States and worked there in Pahang and Selangor . In 1939 he became assistant finance secretary. At the beginning of World War II , he joined Singapore to the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force one, came in 1942 in a prisoner of war and was to build the Thailand-Burma Railway to Changi Prison deported. In 1945 he was released from captivity. In 1948 he became secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs in the Malay Union , was chief secretary in the colony of Aden from 1949 to 1953 and interim governor Aden from 1950 to 1951. He was named Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) in 1952. In 1953 he returned to Singapore and was Chief Secretary there until 1957 . During this time he served from June 2 to June 30, 1955 as Governor of Singapore and represented Sir Robert Brown Black , from whom he took office on December 9, 1957 as his official successor. In 1957 he became Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG). Goode was the last governor before Singapore became a self- governed crown colony on June 3, 1959 , and administered the country as the so-called " Yang di-Pertuan Negara " ( Malay term for the head of state) until the first President Yusof bin Ishak took office on December 1 of the same year. He then took over the governorship in North Borneo in 1960. With the incorporation of Sarawak , Sabah and Singapore into the Malay Union, his term of office ended in 1963, when Mustapha bin Harun took office as the first governor of Sabah in 1963. In the same year Goode was beaten to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG). He was married to Ena Mary, nee McLaren.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Губернаторы: Уильям Олмонд Кодрингтон ГУД ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geo-world.ru
  2. ↑ Kevin Blackburn: Commemorating and commodifying the prisoner of war experience in south-east Asia: The creation of Changi Prison Museum (English).
  3. ↑ http://rulers.org/ruls2.html#singapore
  4. ↑ Nor-Afidah Abd Rahma: William AC Goode ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), Singapore National Library, 1998. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / infopedia.nl.sg
  5. ^ Rulers: Malaysia .
predecessor Office successor
Sir Robert Brown Black Governor of Singapore
1957–1959 		Office abolished
Sir Roland Evelyn Turnbull Governor of North Borneo
1960–1963 		1. Governor of Sabah:
Mustapha bin Harun
personal data
SURNAME Goode, William Allmond Codrington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goode, Sir William Allmond Codrington (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British barrister and colonial administrator
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1986